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    Language and Dialect

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    1528-3542/07/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.1.131 Toward a Dialect Theory: Cultural Differences in the Expression and Recognition of Posed Facial Expressions Hillary Anger Elfenbein University of California‚ Berkeley Martin Beaupre ´ University of Quebec at Montreal Manon Levesque ´ Omar Bongo University Ursula Hess University of Quebec at Montreal Two studies provided direct support for a recently proposed dialect theory of communicating emotion‚ positing that expressive displays

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    The Cockney Dialect

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    History‚ Dialect‚ and Slang of East London Christopher Sharpe Ohio University November 7th‚ 2011 It’s rhyming slang you know‚ like bee’s honey… money. Like I could say give me the bee’s (TV Movies‚ 2011). This is an example of the Cockney Rhyming Slang from the dialect of the same name produced in East London. The Cockney dialect has not only been prominent in East London but in London as whole. The lower working class of London has spoken the Cockney dialect for centuries

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    Mcguinness Dialect

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    deep stereotypes as characters allows for their actions to be predictable. However when one reads through the play‚ one cannot help but recognize and appreciate the true fourth character‚ which is the language. The choice of having three English-dialects helps to create at atmosphere that is both familiar for the audience and comical from the start. Through the use of dark humor McGuinness is able take a dire situation and bring light to it. The men themselves use language as a means to bring light

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    Regional Social Dialects

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    Week 4 Lecture Regional & Social Dialects WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE SPEAKERS? Notes on Examples  Reasonable (even accurate) guesses about speaker’s various characteristics e.g. socio-economic or educational background esp. for English accents in Britain • With distinctive regional accent  origin even from short utterance Holmes (2008) p. 127 3 Characteristics of Speech • Remember? No two people speak the same! – ∞ sources of variation e

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    Cebuano Dialect

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    grammar. It has the following features: • • • • • • Covers all the major parts of speech: nouns‚ pronouns‚ adjectives‚ adverbs‚ prepositions‚ verbs‚ pseudoverbs‚ etc. Includes information on phonemes‚ accents‚ morphological processes‚ and regional dialects. Includes a language map showing the areas where Cebuano is spoken. Contains a total of 2‚285 example Cebuano sentences. Each Cebuano sentence has a corresponding English translation. Contains 300 grammar formulas covering all aspects of the Cebuano

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    emphasizes important character aspects? Dialect. Dialect may seem to be such a small and even insignificant feature‚ but it can reveal so much about a character. The use of dialect in Hurston’s “Sweat” veraciously brings life to her characters as well as evokes and emphasizes the authenticity of African American lives in her story. Hurston’s use of dialect in “Sweat” is a key factor in her bonafide depiction of real African Americans during her time. In general‚ dialect discloses immense amounts of knowledge

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    Example Of Dialect Essay

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    A)Dialects are a natural ‚ invevitable part of cultural and regional differences in American society. Discuss one or two examples of dialects seen in the video.(Please no more than 2 examples.) Example 1 BOSTON WOMAN: I was engaged for awhile to a “Yalie” who sounded like a Yalie to me‚ although he had a trace of a Southern accent. I thought sort a Bill Faulkner‚ Truman Capote accent‚ you know‚ when you’re twenty you don’t‚ you know‚ make these distinctions and I went home to

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    African American Dialect

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     Black English Vernacular(BEV)‚ or Black Vernacular English (BVE)—is a variety (dialect‚ ethnolect‚ and sociolect) of American English‚ most commonly spoken today by urban working-classand largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans.[1] Non-linguists sometimes call it Ebonics (a term that also has other meanings and connotations). It shares parts of its grammar and phonology with the dialects of the Southern United States. Several creolists‚ including William Stewart‚ John Dillard‚ and John

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    Dialect Journals

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    Claudia Arizaga Mrs. Trout English 2(H) 14 May 2013 Christian Existentialism in Native Son Several people wonder‚ what is the purpose of life? Others may accept as true that they make their own choices in life. In reality‚ one’s life is not determined by the individual‚ but by a higher authority. Jean-Paul Sartre lectures about the meaning of life through “Existentialism is Humanism.” He jots down two sides of existentialism: Christian and Atheist side. Christian existentialism is defined with

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    Examination

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    these days. The need to prepare for tests and examinations is a restriction on teachers and also exerts unnecessary pressure on young learners. To what extent do you agree or disagree. Students nowadays are getting more stressed. We have to sit for lots of examination since we are small. Some of us even have their first examination at the age of four‚ when they are supposed to enjoy the beauty of the world without having the fear of failing an examination. It sounds crazy and ridiculous but the principals

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